This Bird Recorder Quick Tour will show you how you can keep your Odonates sightings

User Friendly and Flexible, Wildlife Recorder includes North American Odonates database in addition to the Birds, Mammals and Butterfly databases.  Bird Recorder is designed to simulate the look and functioning of familiar programs like Microsoft Outlook, Excel, Outlook Express and many other widely used Microsoft programs.  This makes it familiar to navigate for many computer users (see below). 

• Enter your Damselfly and Dragonfly sightings in minutes. 

• Automatically keep any number of life or year lists.

• Analyze your data anyway you want.

• Make Great Looking Trip reports.

• Print your own Checklists for any part of the globe.

• With it's simple and fast data entry capabilities and rapid queries, Wildlife Recorder is now the easiest birding database to use and is also the most comprehensive and complete package available.

• You get the North American Odonates and North American Butterflies databases when you purchase Wildlife Recorder. 

• Use Pocket Bird Recorder to keep your sightings in the field and download data directly.

The screenshots below illustrate various Wildlife Recorder functions.

There are 514 species included in the North American Odonates Database.  This is a cropped view of how they present on screen.  When entering your sightings, it is as easy as clicking in the box next to the species name.  As you do it, you can add other information, such as age, sex, numbers, etc.

When you are finished, you click on Save Trip and your sightings are entered into your own database. 

Each species in the Odonates database (for example the Black Petaltail) has its distribution plotted so you can selectively sort and view any species by State or Province or group of states, (e.g. Pacific Northwest, or Southwest, etc. )  This is how you can add new distribution yourself for any species.

Distribution information is based on: 

• Westfall, M. J and May. M.. 1996. Damselflies of North America. Scientific Publishers: Gainesville, Florida. x + 650 pp.

• Needham, J. G.,  Westfall, M. J. and May, M. 2000.  Dragonflies of North America, Scientific Publishers, Gainesville, Florida. x + 920 pp.

• Paulson, D. R. and S. W. Dunkle. 1999. A checklist of North American Odonata including English name, etymology, type locality, and distribution. Slater Museum of natural History, Univ. Puget Sound, Occasional paper No. 56: 1-86.

The screenshot below shows one of many ways to view your Odonate sightings data after you have entered your trip information.  The view below is sightings by species.  It lists the Date, Common Name, Scientific Name and Location.  On the right side of your monitor is a list of your locations as they are kept in order by State and Country.

Using either the row of customizable icons at the top, or the familiar drop down menus, you can access all features of Wildlife Recorder.

Of course the database keeps details of all the sites you have visited so that you can sort your sightings by place (your yard) or places. .  

An unlimited number of lists can be kept automatically from the sightings you have entered. Bird Recorder will automatically keep life lists and if required detailed year lists. Lists are automatically calculated from sightings data.

You can easily keep your State List and output a report to your printer or Word Processor.  It is easy to create reports of your sightings by individual site, group of sites, by county, or state or for all of North America. 

Keeps comprehensive details about your sightings including unlimited free text notes. Bird Record 32 even has its own mini word processor to let you format your notes.

Flexible Queries, you can pull up a list of sightings for a site, county, country or any of the data you have entered, you can even search your free form notes. 

Comprehensive Reporting. Wildlife Recorder provides several formats of printed reports, it also allows you to define your own formats. 

Checklist generator allows you to produce your own checklists based on your own lists or on any of the distribution areas provided with Bird Recorder.  The Report Checklist below shows a bird database.  Your Damselfly and Dragonfly data will plot out just the same way or it can be printed or written to a disk file for further manipulation. 

• Automation links to popular Word Processing packages.
• Include images, sounds and even video clips with your data.
• Sightings import facility, allows you to import your data from other database packages such as AviSys, Thayer and BirdBase.
• Full integration with Pocket Bird Recorder versions (e.g. PalmOS, Windows CE).
• Exports data to other packages, you can specify what data to export.
• Complete on-line help and tutorials.
• Many Wizards to guide you through the features of the package.
• Integral backup and restore utility will compress and save your data to ensure you never lose it due to PC or other failures.
• Charting and graphing facility. 

 Wildlife Recorder Versions

Wildlife Recorder is available in 2  versions:

Standard Edition

As described above and with the following species
databases:

    Birds of  North America.
    North American mammals.

North American Butterflies

World Edition

As described above and with the following species
databases:

     Birds of the World.
     World mammals.

PC running Microsoft Windows 95, 98, ME, NT4.0, Windows
2000, or XP .
At least 16Mb of RAM.
A hard disk with at least 25Mb of free space
Mouse or other pointing device.
CD ROM drive
Printer optional.

Please see the Order form for current pricing (as little as $115 plus shipping).

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